Welcome

This Month

Innes Ave, circa 1890.

Everyone is welcome to attend IBNA’s Community Conversation on June 1. Here’s your chance to see and give feedback on the SFMTA unveiling of new MUNI service plans and street changes for India Basin. Plus hear news from Recology, Clean Power SF, the Banya, and other neighborhood news. Meet your neighbors. Enjoy free coffee and snacks.

Every Month

We meet on the first Saturday of each month at 9:00 am at the Storehouse on Galvez Ave right next to the entrance of the old Navy shipyard. Join us for a cup of coffee and help change the world… or at least the block.

The May meeting is set for 05/04/2019, from 9:00 am to 12:00 noon. All are welcome.

In response to PG&E’s plans to build a second power plant in our neighborhood, the Innes Avenue Coalition was formed in November, 1994. Then two-years later in 1996, The Friends of India Basin came together as a park stewardship organization for the Shoreline Park. By 2000, the groups merged to form the India Basin Neighborhood Association. Since then we have fought to keep what is great about India Basin, the natural beauty and open space.

The history of India Basin is a curious combination of industry and open space, business and pleasure. The name India Basin first appeared on a map in 1868, but theories as to its origin remain murky. The Most Unexceptional guess is that India Basin is named for the ships from the India Rice Mill Company, which docked there in the 19th century. A more creative explanation has it that it was so named because water from nearby springs would stay fresh until a ship reached India.